Hebrews 3:2

2. Faithful Perfectly and absolutely true to all his trusts as legate.

Appointed Literally, made. Allusion is here had to 1 Samuel 12:6, where it is said, “the Lord that advanced (Gr. Septuagint, made) Moses and Aaron.” The word, as here applied to Christ, should not be rendered created, as by Alford, but constituted, including, doubtless, his being brought into incarnate existence, not merely his appointment to his legation.

As also Moses This image of a house is suggested by Numbers 12:7: “My servant Moses… is faithful in all mine house.” The word house symbolizes the dispensation, or theocratic kingdom. Here is an analogy between Moses and Christ; they are similar in faithfulness, yet there is a great superiority on one side.

House In this whole passage (Hebrews 3:2-6) the Greek word for house includes not only the building or material structure, but all the furnishings, family and servants, it contains to make it a complete establishment. And so the word builded, in the following verses, includes not merely the architecture, but the complete establishing, of the house and its contents.

His Many commentators refer here, as in Hebrews 3:6, to God; but a more natural construction refers them to Moses and to Christ. Each of these divine legates had, under God, (Hebrews 3:4,) his own house; yet successively, under Moses and Christ, the house is the same one house, and Christ, as Son, is underlying proprietor even of the house of Moses, who is but servant or steward.